Today’s column will end my extended book review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s useful opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World. My critique will be on the German leader Adolf Hitler’s treatise, “Mein Kampf,” a two-volumne book published in 1925 and 1926 that unfies elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s National Socialist political ideology.

A look at the cyberwar being waged in conjunction with the Russian invasion of Georgia.

Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s fascinating opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on Marxism’s founder, Karl Marx, and the chief propagandist of communism, Friedrich Engels, and their celebrated book, “The Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848).

For whoever that thought handing China the Olympics would give the US more influence over China’s decisions: What were you thinking? Even though the Olympics has been a thorn in China’s side, it is a symbol of China’s rise to the top, similar to Tokyo 1964 and Seoul 1988. And it seems as if America is a little jealous or at least resentful of its newfound strength.

The price of a barrel of oil has fallen $16 in the last three days. Why? I thought we were going to see $150 oil his summer. Speculative investing in oil futures and the falling dollar have been propping up oil prices, just like those Saudis said.